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Would go off the boad and slide Quinn into his spot the next 2 games.

Durn it. Get well soon, Alex. The team needs your forecheck.

Could absolutely see Adams bringing in a D to move Bryson and Clague to injury replacement status. Would be surprised if they bring in a F. If they did, it would almost have to be a low cost rental C to shore up the bottom six defensively, because doubt the blockbuster type deal happens at the deadline and if they just want to shore up the W's a bit, they already have Hinostroza spending time in Ra-cha-cha. Would love to see a true 1 brought in between the pipes, but just don't see the cost of such a deal at this time being appealing to Adams. And, the flip side to all this talk of getting another body to help with the playoff push is that being 1 of 6 legitimately (and theoretically 8, should a team or 2 a bit further behind get hot) fighting for 2 spots is even getting help doesn't guarantee they stay in the playoff spot they've worked hard to hold today.

You don't expect this place to be doom and gloom should the Sabres lose tomorrow &/or Tuesday? Hopefully we don't find out.

Fully expect Kane to be a Blue Shirt this afternoon or evening, but don't see how Kravtsov was the piece holding everything up.

Not really. He only makes $875k.

Anybody else read the title of this thread and expect it's going to be about ideas for how to win more games in the MMArena?

The Rags picking up somebody from Vancouver too? That move doesn't make sense on 1st glance.

And called that in GA's thread about this 4 game stretch being THE defining point of the season. (It is, in that it's the current games to be played, which are always defining in a way; but it isn't because they're still showing us the same things they've shown us all year. And that's tangential to this discussion anyhow.) The bipolarity of this board that we'll experience these last 25 games is going to be worth the price of admission. But the thought that the "panickers" (and really don't like that description of the people hopping off the bandwagon, however briefly) moved to Pittsburgh was the reason for the emoji @doohickie took exception to. They're all still here, and with a loss to Caps, or even worse, the BJ's and they'll all be overly consternated again. And agree wholeheartedly with your final sentiment.

Which is why it remains to be seen, but it had nothing to do with the Caps being possibly gassed. That would merely be a bonus. But if UPL is between the pipes, all bets are off. His issues are in his head, and not sure that he'll have the demons back in check by lunchtime tomorrow.

And this kid thinks the Sabres will play their best home game of the current calendar year tomorrow. It doesn't have anything to do wihtt the Caps being gassed, but the Sabres feeling it. And right now, they are. The Caps possibly being gassed is merely gravy.

Twas a joke. Thus the ;) thingy. ;)

They traded him to Buffalo? ;)

Remains to be seen, but fully expect them to play their best game at home in a LONG time tomorrow. Caps are in a pretty good game against the Rags right now. Hopefully they end up gassed.

Didn't see the pregame show (it didn't record for some reason) but people were making it sound like Granato had implied that initially the FLA game was going to be UPL's. Your thought makes a lot of sense.

They've lost 6 in a row. Would like to see that climb to 8 in a row. Get as many teams out of the race as possible now. So that if the Sabres do have another 3-4 game slide left in them there aren't too many teams to now climb back over. (Ideally, they'll have banked a few excess W's by then that they don't have to climb over anybody.)

Would be a great fit. But don't see any way the Preds would let him go for what Adams would be willing to pay. We're going to have to wait for his doppelganger to get here in a season or 2.

Pretty sure he tried to get it to Quinn on the play in question. But, yes, he needs to strengthen up so that he'll trust his shot when he's in that position. (Will also keep him from getting killed one of these times he gets himself into another inevitable fight with somebody significantly bigger than him.)

Any word on who the 3rd team providing the grease is?

It may be true. (Hopefully it is.) But, guarantee you, should the Sabres lose tomorrow, or God forbid Tuesday, and those panickers will be back in full flock right here.

And, though the game was horrible, as it changed the rotation of the goaltenders, that debacle against the Loafs might have been the most important game of the season. Anderson was not supposed to play Tuesday nor was he to play last night. He looked like he was 10 years younger this week. Anderson probably would've had the Tampa game without playing on Tuesday (he often gets the 1st night of back to backs) and not convinced that without the TO game under his belt that he would've gotten that W. No way to say for sure on any of it, but it is interesting to think about.

No. Am going back to the Otter game that he had good numbers in but didn't play particularly well thought the Kings game. The ONLY really good stretch in that was the 1st period of the Dallas game. Btw, that's twice the sample size that people writing Comrie off are looking at over the same period. And he won all 3 games of his sample. He played poorly against the Krackers. He hasn't been a world beater in his other 3 games, but has played well enough. And, please do not misinterpret this as being sold on Comrie; am not. But merely don't believe he's had a fair opportunity to show what he might be since recovering from his injury. And do expect it is more likely than not that Bales and Granato will have the right guy selected on any given night. But there is a legit reason to NOT start all 3 guys on any given night. It's an interesting place they're in and really do hope that Anderson has refound a year ago's October magic. Am cautiously optimistic he has, but don't want him playing every night even if he has. Do not expect he can hold up to that kind of usage.

He may have found a second wind. If so, trust that Bales will recognize it and set up the rotation accordingly. But he was struggling from January through the AS break for the most part. (The Dallas game being the notable exception.)

And the '77 Habs didn't have the luxury of OT. How many of their 12 ties in that 132 point season would've become W's with 5-10 more minutes of play?

Granato and Bales seem to have a good feel for the pulse of the goalie room for the most part. Each of the goalies have won games that "the other 2 wouldn't have won that one." And when there has been one that seems to be at a downstretch, there's at least 1 that is playing "good enough" to give the team a chance to win. There have been very few TO games where the goalie didn't give them a chance to compete. Don't have a good feel for who gets the go Sunday. A case can be made for all 3 and also against all 3. Personally, would run with Comrie Sunday and then Anderson against the BJs.